International Business Machines Corporation

Satish K Rao

Russell E Cunningham

Jason W Hayes

Darshan Patel

Anil Kalavakolanu

Peter Joseph Heyrman

Vani D Ramagiri

Anjil R Chinnapatlolla

Hariganesh Muralidharan

John John Goodson

A method and system for estimating upgrade time and mitigating errors when updating a virtualized computing system. Operations of this method include, but are not necessarily limited to the following (and not necessarily in the following order): (i) identify updates needed by a system; (ii) compare the system to be updated to other systems to determine similar systems that already had the similar updates; (iii) project the time to complete the update based on the performance characteristics of the system to be updated, the performance characteristics of the similar systems that have already been updated, and the time taken to update the similar systems; (iv) identify errors that occurred when updating the similar systems and the corresponding error resolutions; and (v) pre-emptively apply configuration changes or other error resolutions to the system to be updated.

Reducing downtime caused by incompatibility issues from upgrading firmware and software

A method is described of dynamically searching a search domain. A first result set of data objects is presented. The first result set is obtained from a first search of a search domain having active and inactive data objects for first search features obtained from a source data object. An update is detected in the search domain. Key features are extracted from the source data object to be included in second search features when the update in the search domain is in the source data object. A second search of the updated search domain is performed for data objects having the second search features.

Dynamic search system

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Satish K Rao